Police ID woman killed on M-152

August 30, 2012

SISTER LAKES -- A Schoolcraft, Mich., woman who was struck by a car and killed early Tuesday while trying to find a missing dog has been identified as Janisha Regner, 24.

Michigan State Police in Paw Paw said the woman was in the northbound lane of Michigan 152 near the Cass/Van Buren county line about 1:35 a.m. when she was struck by an auto driven by a 24-year-old Coloma man. Initially transported to Borgess-Lee Memorial Hospital in Dowagiac, Regner was airlifted to Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo, where she died shortly after 5 a.m.

Neither the driver of the auto nor his 21-year-old passenger, a resident of Watervliet, was injured.